Dog vaccination schedule in India: core, non-core, timing and cost

What the WSAVA 2024 guideline says a dog needs

WSAVA's 2024 guideline names three core vaccines for every dog on earth, canine distemper virus (CDV), canine adenovirus (CAV) and canine parvovirus (CPV), and adds rabies and leptospirosis as core wherever those diseases are endemic, which covers all of India. Everything else is non-core or not recommended. The 2024 edition is the one the WSAVA site lists as current on 18 September 2026, and it is the spine of this page.

Core, non-core and not recommended, in the guideline's own words

The guideline's wording on rabies is that where rabies is endemic, vaccination "should be considered essential for both dogs and cats (i.e. rabies vaccines are core in those places), even if there is no legal requirement for this";. On leptospirosis it says that where the disease is endemic, "where implicated serogroups are known and where suitable vaccines are available", vaccination of all dogs "is highly recommended and these vaccines should be considered core in those places";. Canine parainfluenza and Bordetella bronchiseptica (kennel cough) are non-core, chosen on the individual dog's risk. Canine coronavirus and Giardia vaccines are not recommended, because "the evidence that CCoV is an important primary pathogen in adult dogs is weak" and the diarrhoea it causes in puppies "is usually mild";.

The two dates that matter: 16 weeks and 26 weeks

The guideline states the puppy timing in one sentence: the VGG "recommends the administration of multiple core vaccine doses to puppies and kittens, every 2 to 4 weeks, with the final dose being delivered at 16 weeks of age or older";. It then adds that "revaccination at or after 26 weeks of age (rather than waiting until 12 to 16 months of age) is advised to immunise without unnecessary delay the minority of animals that may still have had interfering MDA present at the time of their 16+ week vaccination";. MDA means maternally derived antibody, the protection a puppy drinks in its mother's first milk. Those maternal antibodies block a vaccine from working while they last, and in most puppies they fall low enough to allow a response "by about 8 to 12 weeks of age", though some puppies cannot respond "until 12 weeks of age or older";. The gap between the point where maternal antibodies stop protecting and the point where they stop blocking the vaccine is what the guideline calls the "window of susceptibility";.

The guideline says outright that "the most important of these early vaccine doses is the one administered at 16 weeks of age or older", because maternal antibody "can be expected to have waned substantially by that age in a large majority of puppies";. The 26-week dose replaces the old "first annual booster" at 12 to 16 months and "does not increase the number of core vaccine doses administered to the animal but will substantially reduce the period of susceptibility" for the few puppies still blocked at 16 weeks; a puppy whose blood shows antibody to CPV, CDV and CAV at 20 weeks or later does not need it.

Puppy vaccination schedule for India, week by week

A puppy vaccination schedule that follows WSAVA in India runs from 6 to 8 weeks to a final core dose at 16 weeks or later, a rabies dose at about 12 weeks, a core dose again at 26 weeks, and nothing more until the dog is 3 years old apart from annual leptospirosis and whatever rabies interval the law or the leaflet sets. The schedules Indian clinics and departments actually print differ from that in three places, and the table below puts them side by side so you can see where.

The Chandigarh table and the Vetic package are real Indian instruments, one from a Union Territory's animal husbandry department and one from a chain with clinics in seven metros Vetic Pet Clinic, Dog Vaccination Near Me. Neither cites WSAVA, and both end the core series before 16 weeks: Chandigarh at 14 weeks, Vetic's last DHPPiL at 105 days, which is 15 weeks Vetic Pet Clinic, Dog Vaccination Near Me. Vetic's own FAQ on the same page says the first vaccine goes in at 6 to 8 weeks with boosters at 10 to 12 and 14 to 16 weeks, which does not match the 30-day start its package sells. Where a schedule and the guideline disagree, this page follows the guideline and says so; your nearby vet decides for your puppy, because an orphaned, hand-reared or sick puppy may need a different interval.

How to run the course so the guideline is met

1. Book five visits at the first visit. Ask for a core dose at 6 to 8 weeks, again every 2 to 4 weeks, and insist that the last one lands at 16 weeks or later; WSAVA calls that dose the most important of the series.
2. Add rabies at about 12 weeks. Nobivac Rabies, sold in India by MSD, is labelled for primary vaccination "after 3 months of age", with a repeat at 3 months if it was given earlier. The Chandigarh department also gives the first rabies dose at 3 months.
3. Give the leptospira component twice, 2 to 4 weeks apart. WSAVA says a single dose of a two-dose bacterin should be assumed to give no immunity at all, and if the second dose is missed by more than 6 weeks the pair is started again. The Indian Nobivac Lepto leaflet sets it at 8 to 9 weeks and 12 weeks.
4. Book the 26-week visit before you leave the 16-week one. It is a core dose, not an optional booster, and the alternative WSAVA accepts is a blood test for antibody at 20 weeks or later.
5. Carry the record to every visit. The rabies certificate from these visits is the document Delhi's and Chennai's licence portals ask for, so keep it with the vaccine batch stickers (see the rabies section below).

Socialisation cannot wait for the last dose. WSAVA's Table 1 says "careful socialisation of puppies (during their sensitive period for socialisation) can begin before the completion of this vaccination series";. The Golden Retriever and German Shepherd pages carry the veterinary-behaviour position that the first three months are the most important socialisation period; that window closes before a 16-week course finishes, so plan controlled exposure, not isolation.

7-in-1 and 9-in-1: what is in the vial, antigen by antigen

A 7-in-1 vaccine in India is a four-virus live vial (distemper, adenovirus type 2, parvovirus, parainfluenza) reconstituted in a two-serogroup leptospira liquid, and a 9-in-1 vaccine is the same four viruses reconstituted in a four-serogroup leptospira liquid; the numbers count diseases and serogroups claimed, not doses. That reconciliation comes from the manufacturers' own Indian product pages, and it matters because WSAVA rates the parts differently: three of the viruses are core everywhere, leptospira is core in India, parainfluenza is non-core, and the corona vial some clinics add is not recommended at all.

The source for the four-virus vial is MSD Animal Health India's own Nobivac DHPPi page, which lists live attenuated canine parvovirus, canine distemper virus, canine adenovirus type 2 and canine parainfluenza virus, states that the adenovirus type 2 component "also protects against infectious canine hepatitis (ICH) caused by CAV1", and instructs the vet to reconstitute the vial "in one vial of Nobivac solvent, Nobivac Lepto, Nobivac Rabies or Nobivac RL";. Nobivac Lepto is the bivalent liquid, Leptospira canicola and icterohaemorrhagiae, first dose at 8 to 9 weeks, booster at 12 weeks, then annual revaccination. Nobivac L4 is the four-serogroup liquid, Canicola, Icterohaemorrhagiae, Australis (serovar Bratislava) and Grippotyphosa, given as two doses 4 weeks apart from 6 weeks of age, then annually, and it too can reconstitute DHPPi. Zoetis's Vanguard Plus 5 L4 reaches the same count with a different fourth serogroup, Pomona instead of Australis, and its leaflet asks for 3 doses 3 weeks apart when the first is given under 9 weeks of age. Indian Immunologicals' Megavac 7 lists live distemper, adenovirus (CAV-2), parvovirus and parainfluenza with inactivated adenovirus (CAV-1) and leptospirosis, and the same company's Megavac CC is a separate canine corona vaccine.

So is the 9-in-1 vaccine better than the 7-in-1 vaccine?

The 9-in-1 vaccine adds two leptospira serogroups and nothing else, so the question is whether those serogroups circulate where you live, which is exactly the condition WSAVA attaches to calling any leptospira component core: "where implicated serogroups are known and where suitable vaccines are available";. Neither product page names the serogroups found in Indian dogs, and this page does not claim to know them. Ask your nearby vet which serogroups they see; a clinic that has treated leptospirosis in your locality is the right source, and the answer decides between the two vials. What the count does not change is the core protection: distemper, adenovirus and parvovirus are identical in both, and both carry parainfluenza whether you wanted it or not, because in India the four viruses come as one freeze-dried pellet.

What the 3 in 1 label means for a dog

No manufacturer page opened for this guide sells a canine product labelled "3 in 1" in India. The nearest three-antigen dog vaccine in the Nobivac range is Nobivac DHP, which MSD's own Q and A lists as live canine distemper virus, canine adenovirus 2 and canine parvovirus, the three WSAVA core viruses and nothing else. MSD India's listed canine range runs from Nobivac Puppy DP, a two-antigen distemper and parvovirus vial for the first dose, up to DHPPi with four MSD Animal Health India. In everyday Indian clinic language, "3 in 1" most often refers to the cat vaccine (panleukopenia, herpesvirus and calicivirus), which is covered on the cat vaccination schedule for India. A dog offered a "3 in 1" should be getting distemper, adenovirus and parvovirus; ask to see the vial label and check the three names against the table above.

Rabies vaccine: WSAVA's position, India's position, and the certificate that unlocks the licence

The rabies vaccine is core for every dog in India under WSAVA, mandatory in practice under the municipal licence rules, and the single dose is given at about 3 months of age with a booster one year later and then at the interval the leaflet or the law sets. India's national position is an elimination plan: the National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination by 2030 (NAPRE), unveiled on World Rabies Day, 28 September 2023, rests on "sustained mass dog vaccinations" as its first pillar.

WHO's India office cites the ICMR-NIE estimate published in 2024 of 9.1 million animal bites a year in India, more than three-quarters of them by dogs, and 5,726 human rabies deaths a year, down from an estimated 20,000 two decades earlier. The NAPRE page puts about 96 percent of rabies mortality down to dog bites, and WSAVA's summary is that "mass canine vaccination has been shown to greatly reduce or eliminate rabies cases";.

First dose age and booster interval, from the leaflets and the departments

WSAVA's Table 1 entry for rabies defers to local law and the local leaflet, noting that "in some countries, the first dose is generally not given before 12 weeks of age", that "revaccination at 1 year of age (or in some countries 1 year after the primary vaccination) is required", and that canine rabies vaccines carry "either a 1- or 3-year DOI" (duration of immunity) with booster timing set by the licence or by law. The Indian leaflet for Nobivac Rabies sets primary vaccination of dogs "after 3 months of age", allows an earlier dose only if repeated at 3 months, states a 3-year revaccination interval, and adds that "annual revaccination is recommended in endemic areas". India is an endemic area. The Chandigarh department gives the first dose at 3 months, a second at 4 months and an annual booster, and the NCDC's national rabies prophylaxis guideline prints "Vaccinate your pets against rabies every year" on its cover. Two published intervals therefore exist, 3 years on the licence and 1 year in Indian practice; the annual interval governs in India today because the municipal licence expires with the certificate, as the next paragraph shows.

Why the rabies certificate gates the municipal licence

Delhi's pet dog registration portal, run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, states that the "validity of Registration Certificate will be of maximum one Year duration Subjected to date of vaccination", charges Rs 500 for a new registration and Rs 500 for renewal, and adds a late fee of Rs 100 per month after a one-month grace period that runs "after expiry date of Anti Rabies Vaccination certificate". The portal links its own "ARV-Certificate format" for the vet to fill in. In other words the licence clock in Delhi is the rabies clock: a dog whose booster is late is a dog whose registration is late, and the fee runs from the certificate's expiry, not the licence's. Greater Chennai Corporation in Tamil Nadu requires a pet licence for keeping pet animals at home, issues it for Rs 50 through an online pet animal licensing system, and issued 9,115 licences in 2024. The step-by-step process for each city is on the dog registration in India guide and the Chennai GCC pet licence guide; this page covers only the vaccine that both require.

1. Vaccinate against rabies at 3 months and ask the vet to enter the product name, batch number and date on a certificate, not just a sticker in a booklet; Delhi's portal has its own certificate format.
2. Register or renew the licence within the certificate's validity. Delhi's registration lasts at most one year from the vaccination date, and the late fee of Rs 100 a month starts one month after the anti-rabies certificate expires.
3. Revaccinate before the certificate lapses, every year in India. The Indian leaflet allows 3 years but recommends annual boosters in endemic areas, and the NCDC says every year National Centre for Disease Control.
4. Carry the certificate when you travel or board the dog; the importing a dog to India guide covers the rabies paperwork at the border, which is a separate and stricter set of rules.

Is rabies vaccine 3 or 5 doses? Two different schedules are being confused

A healthy dog gets one rabies dose, not three or five. The five-dose schedule people search for is the human post-exposure course: the NCDC's national guideline describes the Essen regimen as a "five dose intramuscular schedule", one dose each on days 0, 3, 7, 14 and 28 after a bite, with an intradermal alternative on days 0, 3, 7 and 28, and it calls a dog bite a medical emergency. The same pattern appears on the animal side only for an exposed animal: the Nobivac Rabies leaflet's post-bite programme for a bitten dog is single doses on days 0, 3, 7, 14 and 28. For prevention, WSAVA notes that rabies vaccines "are remarkably immunogenic. A single dose can immunise";. A dog bite sends the person to hospital for the five-dose course; the dog that is up to date on its single annual dose is the reason the trip is a precaution rather than a panic.

Adult dogs: how often to revaccinate, and where India disagrees with WSAVA

An adult dog needs its core viral vaccines no more often than every 3 years under WSAVA 2024, its leptospirosis vaccine every year, and its rabies vaccine on the interval the leaflet or the law sets, which in India works out to every year. Indian clinics and departments sell an annual booster for everything. Both positions are published below with their dates, and the section ends with what governs today.

WSAVA's Table 1 row for the core viral vaccines reads, after the 26-week dose, "thereafter, revaccinate at 3 years of age and thereafter no more frequently than every 3 years";. The guideline's FAQ answers the question of when to stop vaccinating an old dog by saying it is not appropriate to stop, and that "for the core MLV vaccines, the current recommendation is for lifelong revaccination no more frequently than every 3 years", while leptospira and non-core vaccines "generally need to be given annually";. Leptospira bacterins earn the annual booster because their immunity is short: the guideline puts it at "less than 18 months", with challenge studies showing protection lasting at least 12 to 14 months.

What Indian schedules print instead

The Vetic blog that ranks for this query tells owners to "booster the DHPPiL vaccine one year after the final puppy dose, then annually, to maintain immunity", and the chain's clinic page sells an annual booster package from Rs 3,199 with the line that "most vaccines are effective for 1 year and require a booster dose after 1 year"; Vetic Pet Clinic, Dog Vaccination Near Me. The Chandigarh department's table has "Booster Vaccination - Annually" under its combined distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parainfluenza and parvo line. The Indian Nobivac DHPPi leaflet itself describes the product as indicated "for annual or biannual revaccination", so the annual habit has a leaflet behind it.

Two things are true at once. The annual visit is necessary, because the leptospira component and the rabies certificate both run out inside a year. The annual dose of distemper, adenovirus and parvovirus is not required by the guideline, and it survives because in India the four viruses and the leptospira liquid arrive as one combined injection, so a clinic giving the annual leptospira booster gives the viruses with it MSD Animal Health India. What governs today is your vet's judgement on the dog in front of them, with the guideline's three-year interval as the evidence they weigh.

An adult dog with no record

An adult dog of unknown history needs one core dose, not a puppy course. WSAVA says "a single dose of MLV core vaccine will very likely be sufficient to induce immunity in pet dogs over 26 weeks of age and will provide long-lasting protection", with a second dose 2 to 4 weeks later worth considering only in high-risk situations such as an outbreak. Add one rabies dose and two leptospira doses 2 to 4 weeks apart, because the leptospira bacterin needs both to immunise. This is the schedule for a rescued street dog, a dog bought without KCI papers or a vaccination record, or a dog whose booklet was lost; a healthy adult can receive all of these at the same visit, since the guideline confirms a healthy dog "should be able to respond to multiple vaccine antigens delivered concurrently";. The Shih Tzu page on this site makes the buyer's version of the same point: a puppy sold without a vaccination record, deworming or a health certificate is not the cheaper puppy six months later.

Dog vaccination and deworming schedule: the worming dates that sit between the shots

A deworming schedule for an Indian puppy starts at 2 weeks of age and repeats every 2 weeks until 8 weeks, then monthly, under the Tropical Council for Companion Animal Parasites (TroCCAP) guideline for the tropics, which also asks that adult dogs be dewormed monthly and tested for gut parasites at least every 3 months. The Chandigarh department's table thins that out after 6 months, and the two are compared below.

TroCCAP's canine endoparasite guideline, second edition dated 17 March 2019, states that "puppies should be treated with a registered anthelmintic labelled for use in puppies at 2 weeks of age (to prevent vertically acquired infections becoming patent) and then every 2 weeks until 8 weeks of age", that the dam should be treated at the same time, and that "adults dogs should be dewormed monthly", more often with heavy burdens. Its reasoning for the tropics is a higher environmental egg load, which is why its adult interval is shorter than a temperate-country schedule. It also asks that puppies "be tested for parasites during routine consultations (e.g. vaccinations) and at least every 3 months thereafter", which is a cheap faecal flotation your clinic can run on the same visit as a dose.

• TroCCAP 2019, tropics: deworm at 2 weeks, then every 2 weeks until 8 weeks, then monthly for life; faecal test at least every 3 months.
• Chandigarh Animal Husbandry Department: deworm at 2 weeks and at 1 month, then every month up to 6 months, every 2 months up to 1 year, and every 3 months for adults.
• Where they agree: the first dose at 2 weeks, before the first vaccine, and monthly dosing through the puppy vaccination schedule.
• Where they differ: adult interval, monthly against quarterly. TroCCAP's is the guideline written for climates like India's; the department's is a state schedule that cites no source. Your vet's faecal test result is the tiebreaker for your dog.

Deworm before each vaccine visit rather than on the same day if your vet prefers it, and tell the vet if the puppy has diarrhoea, because the Vanguard Plus 5 L4 leaflet warns that "a protective immune response may not be elicited if animals are incubating an infectious disease, are malnourished or parasitized";. A dog that is dewormed on schedule is also a cleaner dog to vaccinate. Tick and flea control is a separate monthly product and a separate calendar that peaks with the monsoon; it is covered on the tick prevention for dogs in India guide.

Dog vaccination cost in India: government veterinary hospital against private clinic

Dog vaccination cost in India runs from Rs 30 for an anti-rabies dose at a Chandigarh government veterinary institution to Rs 699 for the same dose at a private clinic chain, and from Rs 600 for a 9-in-1 at a Goa government veterinary hospital to Rs 899 at that chain, so the delivery model, not the drug, sets the price Vetic Pet Clinic, Dog Vaccination Near Me. Every figure below was read on the page named, with its city and date, and every rupee figure on this page passed the exchange-rate test described at the end of the section.

Dog vaccination cost in government hospital: what is published and what is not

Two state fee lists were readable for this guide. Goa's minister told the Legislative Assembly on 7 August 2024 that a government veterinary hospital or dispensary charges Rs 100 per dog for anti-rabies and Rs 600 for the 9-in-1, both inclusive of the vaccine and the certificate, with a Rs 150 service charge for any vaccine the owner brings in. Chandigarh's animal husbandry department publishes a fee page for its government veterinary institutions: an outdoor ticket of Rs 30 for pet animals, an anti-rabies vaccination fee of Rs 30, a health certificate at Rs 50 per animal and a stool test at Rs 10. The Greater Chennai Corporation page lists six Veterinary Pet Clinics that provide treatment and vaccination for pet animals, in Thiru.Vi.Ka. Nagar, Nungambakkam, Kannammapet, Meenambakkam, Pullianthope and Lloyds Colony, and prints no fee. No other state or municipal fee page was opened for this guide, so this page publishes no government price for any other city.

The exchange-rate test, and why the Indian prices above are Indian

Every rupee figure on this page was divided by 84.38 and by 74, the two rates at which converted US dollar price lists have been caught on Indian pet sites. None of the government fees or per-dose clinic prices resolves to a whole number of dollars at either rate: Rs 699 is 8.28 dollars at 84.38 and 9.45 at 74, Rs 899 is 10.65 and 12.15, Rs 980 is 11.61 and 13.24, Rs 600 is 7.11 and 8.11. One struck-through list price, Rs 8,691, lands on 103.00 at 84.38 and another, Rs 3,996, on 54.00 at 74; a converted list holds one rate across every row, so two rates on two rows of one page is noise, and 103 dollars is not a price anyone prints. The figures are rupee-native. The ranking pages print instead three different rabies prices on one page, Rs 350 a dose, Rs 160 to Rs 225 a vial and Rs 250 to Rs 500, with no city, date or seller, from a Hyderabad clinic chain; a price without a place and a date is not one you can act on.

Two more things the price pages show. Vetic quotes different package prices on different city pages on the same day, Rs 6,499 on the national page against Rs 7,199 in Mumbai for the identical seven-visit schedule, while its per-vaccine prices are the same on both; compare single-dose prices between clinics, not packages Vetic Pet Clinic. And a vial bought from a pharmacy at Rs 980 is not a vaccination: it needs a prescription, the 2 to 8 degree cold chain the leaflets require, and a vet to reconstitute and inject it within 30 minutes, which is why Goa charges Rs 150 to administer an owner-brought vial Goa Legislative Assembly. For the wider first-year budget, the Labrador Retriever page carries one Indian source's first-year vaccination figure of Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000, which sits between a government course and the private packages above.

Community dogs: who vaccinates the street dog under the ABC Rules 2023

The Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 place the duty to vaccinate a street dog on the local authority and the duty to vaccinate a pet on its owner, in one rule with two clauses. Rule 8(1) reads "in case of pet animals, the owner of the animal shall be responsible for the deworming, immunisation and sterilisation", and Rule 8(2) that "in case of street animals, the local authority shall be responsible for deworming, immunisation and sterilisation", which it may carry out through an Animal Welfare Organisation recognised by the Animal Welfare Board.

The rules were notified by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying as G.S.R. 193(E) on 10 March 2023. Under them a captured street dog is sterilised and immunised at an Animal Birth Control centre, marked with a V-shaped notch on the right ear so it can be identified "as sterilised and immunized, once it is back on the street", and released in the same area it was caught. Greater Chennai Corporation reports running the programme with 16 dog vehicles and 5 catchers per zone, catching 19,640 street dogs in 2023 and 20,296 in 2024, each sterilised and immunised against rabies at one of its ABC centres and released back to its area. Goa's department told its Assembly that anti-rabies vaccination of stray dogs is done free of cost with Mission Rabies, and that a free static-point rabies vaccination for owned pet dogs runs for a month from World Rabies Day on 28 September each year. A community dog you feed but do not own is the local authority's to vaccinate under Rule 8(2); a notched ear is the sign it has been done, and the free-ranging dogs in India guide covers what a feeder can and cannot do under the same rules. Nothing in this section is advice to handle a street dog yourself; a bite from an unvaccinated dog sends the person to the five-dose course described in the rabies section above.

Side effects, missed doses and the eight mistakes that cost a puppy its protection

Side effects of dog vaccination in the Indian leaflets are mostly a small lump and a quiet day: the Nobivac Rabies leaflet lists "a transient palpable nodule" at the injection site after subcutaneous dosing and says generalised hypersensitivity reactions "may occasionally occur", and the Nobivac L4 leaflet lists, in very rare cases, "a mild and transient increase in body temperature, less activity and/or a reduced appetite"; MSD Animal Health India. The serious reaction is anaphylaxis, which every leaflet answers with adrenaline (epinephrine) given by the vet, and which is the reason a vaccine is given in a clinic and the dog kept there for a short while afterwards Zoetis Canada, Vanguard Plus 5 L4 product….

Vaccinate a healthy dog. The Vanguard leaflet states that "vaccination of healthy dogs is recommended" and that a protective response may not follow in an animal that is incubating an infection, malnourished, parasitised, stressed by transport or immunocompromised; it also says vaccination of pregnant bitches "should be avoided";. The Nobivac Puppy DP leaflet describes the occasional "mild anaphylactic-type hypersensitivity reaction" as something that can follow any foreign protein and is "in most cases, self-limiting";. A puppy with fever, vomiting or diarrhoea on the day of a dose is a puppy whose dose should wait a week, and the decision belongs to the vet examining it, not to the calendar.

What a missed dose means

A missed core dose in a puppy is corrected by giving it late, not by starting over; WSAVA's rule is that the number of doses "will vary somewhat and will depend on the age at which vaccination is started and the chosen intervals", that the one at 16 weeks or older is the one that matters, and that doses should not be given "more frequently than every 2 weeks";. A missed second leptospira dose is different: if the second dose is not given "within 6 weeks of the first, the regime needs to be started again", because a single dose of a two-dose bacterin "should be assumed not to provide any immunity";. A missed rabies booster is a lapsed certificate, and in Delhi a late fee of Rs 100 a month from one month after the certificate's expiry.

• Finishing the puppy course at 12 or 14 weeks. The dose at 16 weeks or older is the most important one in the series.
• Skipping the 26-week dose because the booklet says "annual booster". It replaces the old first annual booster and closes the window for the puppies still blocked at 16 weeks.
• Paying for canine coronavirus. WSAVA lists it as not recommended; two doses cost Rs 1,798 at the chain that schedules them Vetic Pet Clinic, Dog Vaccination Near Me.
• Letting the second leptospira dose slip past 6 weeks, which throws away the first.
• Vaccinating closer than 2 weeks apart to catch up; the guideline advises against it.
• Letting the rabies certificate lapse. The licence expires with it in Delhi and the late fee runs from the certificate date.
• Buying a vial and injecting at home. The leaflets require storage at 2 to 8 degrees, use within 30 minutes of reconstitution, and adrenaline on hand for anaphylaxis; Goa's Rs 150 service charge exists precisely so a vet administers the owner's vial Goa Legislative Assembly.
• Isolating the puppy until the last dose. WSAVA says careful socialisation can begin before the series is complete, and the behaviour window closes before a 16-week course does.